Ya, the silt fence is a bit ironic... Unfortunately we see that all the time out here so the irony gets lost on me sometimes- thanks for pointing it out

When we were looking at excavators, we actually tried that same 225 out. Very nice machine- felt like a big 50D! Nice and smooth and fast. I even did the Bobcat Ron test of taking a full bucket of mud and dropping the boom and stick while it was full over the side to see how tippy it was. It wasn't Unfortunately, for most of our jobs these days, especially with a mulcher on the stick, we found the 225 was going to be too big to get through the tight areas we find ourselves these days. Additionally, the 160 is 8'6" wide so we don't have to worry about permits- I wasn't going to be able to get away with that on the 225 at 10+' wide.

That clearing job wasn't by a marsh- it was actually on the backside of a landfill that was leaching chemicals into the groundwater. Hence the environmental company being called to come in and mitigate the area.

And in terms of the grinder, it does exactly what we wanted it to do- process green waste and mulch- very well. It was great on this job because there really wasn't room to bring a big tracked grinder in either. As we start getting into bigger clearing jobs and we expand our recycling yard and we need to start handling stumps and bigger logs, a larger tub or horizontal will be in our future for sure.